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NASA 360 provides the public an opportunity to learn about real-life applications of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This thirty-minute magazine style program highlights NASA’s impact on daily lives, showcasing some of the 30,000 inventions developed by NASA over the past 50 years. It examines how technologies developed by or for NASA are used in everything from space exploration to everyday consumer products. Each NASA 360 program focuses on a different NASA innovation or...favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topic: NASA 360

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Learn all about the optical telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Find out why astronomers prefer the thin atmosphere found here and compare Earth-based telescopes to space telescopes like Hubble. Learn about the challenges of exploring the surface of Mars. Find out how NASA uses science and math to successfully design the type of vehicle needed for specific missions. See why scientists refer to entry, descent and landing as "seven minutes of terror."

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Film taken includes: - Unidentifiable views and a wide shot of the Mass Spectrometer experiment boom. - Views from camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during a lunar surface excursion, scenes as LRV drives, and David Scott unloading equipment from LRV. - View of Lunar Module (LM) taken during transposition and docking and dark views possibly during a trans-Earth Extravehicular Activity (EVA). - Views from the Lunar Module (LM) window during descent to the moon and ascent from the...favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews ) Topic: What -- Apollo 15

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See how NASA engineers use the design process to evaluate the best choice for a new lunar excavator. Three different models are tested on location in Hawaii where the soil on Mauna Kea Volcano is simiilar to that on the moon. Topic: Choosing the Right Lunar Excavator

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Relive the event that 20% of the world's population watched in awe on July 20, 1969. Learn more about the historic Apollo 11 mission and hear what President Obama had to say about the incalculable benefits of the Apollo Program. Topic: NASA eClips Video Series

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What is gravity? Find out about the balance between gravity and inertia that keeps the International Space Station in orbit. Learn why astronauts "float" in space and how the space shuttle has to slow down in order to come back to Earth. Topics: NASA, NASA eClips, NIA, Our World, elementary, engineering, video, education, technology, science,...

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Join NASA scientists and beekeepers in a citizen science project to collect important data about climate change. Learn how honeybees pollinate over 130 crops in the United States each year and what NASA is doing to help study the decline in bee populations. Topics: NASA, NIA, eClips, Our World, elementary, video, education, technology, science, engineering,...

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Snowflakes are actually a history of what was happening in the atmosphere as the snowflake formed and fell to the ground. Find out how you can help NASA scientists study different types of snowflakes to learn about the atmosphere and changes in climate. Topics: NASA, NASA eClips, NIA, Our World, elementary, video, education, technology, science, Earth, space,...

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Find out how plants use light to make their own food in a process called photosynthesis. See how NASA uses LED lights to help grow plants in space. Design your own plant growth chamber like the ones used by NASA. Topics: NASA, NIA, eClips, Our World, Elementary, Video, Education, Technology, Science, Engineering,...

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Join NASA scuebtusts and engineers at NASA Langley Research Center, one of the most extensive wind tunnel facilities in the world, as they study air flow around objects at differenet wind speeds. Learn what kinds of objects can be tested in the various kinds of wind tunnels. Topics: NASA, NIA, eClips, Our World, Elementary, Video, Education, Technology, Science, Engineering,...

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Explore some of the unique career opportunities at NASA. Learn how NASA internships and co-op programs influenced scientists and engineers working on exploration projects today. Find out how you can be part of NASA, too! Topics: NASA, NIA, eClips, Our World, Elementary, Video, Education, Technology, Science, Engineering,...

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Learn how famous explorers, scientists and even NASA use journals and science notebooks to record observations about Our World. See why journaling is important on the International Space Station to record how the astronauts react to living in space. Topics: NASA, NASA eClips, NIA, Our World, elementary, education, video, technology, science, engineering,...

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See how astronauts today compare to explorers of old. Find out how NASA technologies are being used to help archaeologists in Historic Jamestowne to learn more about the artifacts they are uncovering without damaging the artifacts. Topics: NASA, eClips, NIA, Our World, elementary, video, education, technology, engineering, science,...

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Watch as NASA engineers use a special welding technique known as friction-stir welding to bond new composite metals used for the Ares I launch vehicle. See how this process adds strength to the material. Learn to convert degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius.

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This NASA video segment describes how NASA-inspired technologies used in space are influencing the design of racecars. Go behind the scenes at the Miami Raceway to learn how Indy cars are designed based on airplane design. Down force is compared to lift. Learn how the Indy car racing suits and gear are similar to the spacesuits astronauts wear. Topic: NASA eClips Videos

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This episode of NASA 360 contains updates on Mars. Highlights include: the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, mission as it looks for evidence of water on Mars; using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at Earth and explore deep space; exploring the “final frontier” of Earth’s atmosphere; using satellites to measure the height of the oceans; and the impact of changing sea levels on human civilizations. Topics: Mars, water, atmosphere, Hubble, telescope, satellites, oceans, sea levels, CRISM

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The equipment and hardware that will be used in space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was loaded into the shuttle's payload bay at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A in Florida on Sept. 25. During its 11-day mission designated STS-125, Atlantis' seven astronauts will install two new instruments in Hubble, as well as replace the Fine Guidance Sensor. Atlantis is targeted to launch Oct. 14.